Piano: The Golden Mean Of Music

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Piano: the greatest instrument or the golden mean of music?
Practically everyone to some degree has some interest and curiosity in music and its arrangement. Most lovers of music – those who can or cannot play or sing, those that love music as an art, those that love music as a profession – consciously or unconsciously admit that it a universal language, it transcends to all races, as diverse as a tune of the solitary to the tune of a lonely mourner seeking expression; what music can do goes beyond what language can accomplish!
Music, generally understood, is the identification of patterns that governs a composers technique through the embodiment of its elements; rhythm, harmony, melody, structure, form and texture. There is no single and intercultural universal concept defining music. The definition of music, alongside other fundamental questions like what is revealed by the history of music, what relationship exists between music and mind, what musical history reveal to us about music and the connection to emotions have not received universal uniformity, and undoubtedly, I have no answer to the unanswerable.
If for some gay and strenuous course man had to appoint an ambassador to represent the more than 20,000 array of instruments he has found use of, to rule the spirits of music, what criteria would suffice? Which all pervading influence would be assiduously cultivated to influence and inform the mind? Which instrument satisfies the brilliant embodiment common to all music, the concatenate pedantries that unite their emblem the true spirit and expression of music?
Personally, I think the piano is a great ambassador of music, if not the best, and for many reason, some of which I will mention. One, of inestimable value, is ...

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...owever, I wish to reserve the title ‘greatest instrument’ to the title of ‘golden mean of music’ in order to allow my readers to give their opinions as to which instrument deserves this honor and their reasons. Perhaps at such a date when enough correspondences have been received we might acquire some insight as to which instrument reigns, worthy of such recognition.

Most of the famous composers – Autur Schnabel, Wilhelm Kempff, Alfred Brendel, Glenn Gould, Alfred Cortot, Emil Gilels, Arthur Rubinstein, Sviatoslav, Vladimir Horowitz, Sergei Rachmaninov (Source: Limelight Magazine)
“I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play”, Taylor Swift
“One of my biggest thrills for me is sitting down with a guitar of piano and just out of nowhere to make a song happen”, Lady Gaga
“If am going to hell, am going there playing a piano”, Jerry Lee Lewis

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